Droid Incredible Teardown Reveals Cost of $163

iSuppli did what it does best this weekripped apart an expensive piece of gadgetry and assessed the monetary sum of its parts. This time out, it was HTC's Editors' Choice-winning Droid Incredible. According to iSuppli, the handset's bill of materials is $163.35.

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iSuppli did what it does best this weekripped apart an expensive piece of gadgetry and assessed the monetary sum of its parts. This time out, it was HTC's Editors' Choice-winning Droid Incredible. According to iSuppli, the handset's bill of materials is $163.35.

Once the manufacturer cost is added in, the Incredible costs $172.25, iSuppli said.

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The most expansive element of the Incredible, according to iSuppli, is its $31.40 applications processor, which accounts for 19.2 percent of the phone's total price. In second place at 19.1 percent is the touchscreen display, which cost $31.20. The memory was close behind at $29.80, or 18.2 percent of the phone's cost.

iSuppli noted the similarities between the Verizon handset and another HTC-designed Android phone, the Nexus One. "The Droid Incredible could have been dubbed the 'Nexus Two' given its similarity to HTC's Nexus One introduced early this year," said iSuppli director, Andrew Rassweiler. "Indeed, the phones are very similar in terms of costs and features, with the main difference being the Incredible's support for the CDMA air standard used by carrier Verizon in the United States."

According to iSuppli's number's back in January, the Nexus bill of materials is $174.14. Back in June, iSuppli priced the iPhone 4 at $187.51.

Brian Heater came to PCMag in 2006, after working at Laptop Magazine as a staff writer. His writing has appeared in Spin, The Onion, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Press, The Oklahoma Gazette, The Metro Santa Cruz, Heeb, and a lot of music magazines you’ve probably never heard of. He also runs the comics site The Daily Cross Hatch, which he strongly recommends you check out. One time Brian met the president. He had green hair back then. Long story.
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